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Speaking English is different from writing English, because while we are writing, we have time to think whether a word is appropriate, if the tenses are correct and so on. While speaking English, we don’t. We need to be able to use the correct tenses and choose the correct words and phrases unconsciously.

Nobody is able to speak English well without tremendous amount of practice. But the fact is that many people are not so luck that they have an English-speaking environment.

That is why I came out with this topic today.

I think one of the solutions to this problem is to try to talk English to ourselves.

This is quite a good method, because with this method you can practice spoken English at any time. If you do practice your spoken English very often, you won’t be so nervous while you really speak English to other people.

If you are afraid that other people will think that you are crazy. You can actually see a book to pretend that you are reading, instead of speaking to yourselves while you are practicing this method.

I am actually quite a fan of this method. Therefore, I think I am able to share more tips about this with you.

I think that every one of us needs some inner talks especially when we are angry or sad. Don’t you think that it is a great opportunity to practice this method?

You can also talk to the stars before sleeping. It is romantic. Right?

Sometimes, you can also make it amusing by talking something special. For example, you can imagine that you are being awarded by a Nobel Prize and making an English speech. You are talking with some one you love, or imagine that you are scolding your enemies. Try to be creative; you will find it interesting.

For maximum affect, you can make it like a real chat while you are alone. While you imagine that you are giving a speech. You can imagine that there are lots of audiences. You are so happy about getting the award. Then, you make your speech passionately and show your happiness with the help of your facial expressions, your hands, pitches and even movements.

This is what I want to present to you today. I hope it helps.
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English Accent 15 May 2011

A lot of English professionals think that English is just a tool to communicate. Therefore, to oral English, English learners just have to be able to get their message across. They advocate that English learners just have to focus on pronunciation. They don’t need to waste their time on imitating a particular type of English accent, such as American accent or British accent.

 

However, I do have a different opinion on it.

 

I think that English accent is very important. It is because if a person has good pronunciation but he has an accent that people are not familiar with. Then, I will be tiring for people to understand him.

 

Communication does include whether our sound, pitch and accent sound comfortable to the receivers. If they feel comfortable with our sound, people will be more likely to listen to us.

 

Just imagine when you are in a shopping mall, a sale girl who speaks English with an accent that you find it hard to understand. Will you stand there and listen to her?

 

Good accent cans also help you create better impression. In my campus, there are a lot of students from English-speaking families. People tend to think that the English ability of students who have the accent of English speaking countries is better.

 

English accent is extremely important to you, if you want to become an English teacher. This is because students tend to be willing to pay more to English teachers with very good accent and tend to trust them better.

 

Based on this I think that English learners should try to imitate a particular English accent that most of the people are familiar with. I think Californian accent is one of the best choices, because most of the people are very familiar with the accent of Hollywood actors. It is also easier for us to imitate this type of accent, because it is easy and entertaining for us to download and watch a Hollywood English movie.

 

What do you think of it?


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Thanks 12 May 2011

While organizing my mother’s photos taken while she went traveling before, I feel appreciative that she is still beautiful and healthy.

 

Thanks*100

 

Let’s us travel very often after I graduate.

 

Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Europe, America, Australia…

 

I will bring you to any place around the world.

 

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Some of the people always think that nobody loves them. They cannot feel enough love in their life.

 

In fact, the truth is that love is actually around them, but they just don’t detect it.

 

If our mothers don’t love us, they won’t cook for us, and concern us all the times.

 

If our teachers don’t love us, they won’t repeat the lesson again and again until we understand.

 

If our friends don’t love us, they won’t feel like talking with us, or inviting us for dinner.

 

Well! I think now you know that you just have to use your heart to feel in order to have a great sense of being loved.

 

In order to strengthen this feeling, you can also take some actions to reply their love, which is to appreciate.

 

Cultivate a habit of saying thank you to people who help you. Appreciate their help and their love. Then, you can feel the love better.

 

According to studies, a big percentage of our bodies consist of water. The energy of the water will rise, if somebody says thank you or words about appreciation around the water.

 

That means by being appreciative, you will gain not only a sense of being loved and better social relationship, but also better health.

 

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I went to a furniture exhibition with my sister this afternoon. I suddenly found that English is actually around me, although my country, Malaysia is not an English-speaking country.


It is because a lot of advertisements and brochures are written in English. Many products are described in English.


By noticing the English and recording it in my notebook, I can learn a lot of vivid and practical English, because businessmen usually try to use vivid description to bring the products to life. The English learnt in life is practical, because it is authentic real life English.




If this is the case in your country, don't waste these opportunities to learn English from your life?


However, remember to judge whether the English is trustworthy before memorizing them. You can judge it according to your experiences and writers. If the description and advertisements are written by large organizations or companies, you can make sure that they are correct.

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I have been writing about 100 posts in these 6 months. I always print out my writing after posting them, categorizing them and reviewing them very often.

          By just doing this, I get the benefits below.

  • My own encyclopedia

I often write down my observation and experiences in my blog. It is very helpful to me. For example, by reviewing the posts under the category of “study”, where my examination and studying experiences are recorded. I will be able to plan a better studying plan for my examination.

 

  • Build up good habits

I did write some posts related to the benefits of sitting upright before. Every time, when I review back my posts, they will remind me to keep this habit. Blogging really help me build up many good habits.

 

  • Improve my writing skills

When we express something, we may think that we express it well. Our words are easy to understand. However, sometimes it is not the case to the readers. Therefore, we need to keep our writing for a long time until we have forgotten what we wrote before and read it as we are a reader, so that we can find out our writing problems.

 

  • Keep myself happy, touched and motivated

I often write down the happy and touching things happening on me and motivating stories happening around me. By reviewing these things, I will feel happier, touched and more motivated.

 

  • Understand myself better

I do not know whether you agree or not. Sometimes, it is not easy for us to understand ourselves well. However, we can actually understand ourselves better by reading our diaries, as they are just like our history. They shows how we feel when something happen. It is a good way for us to understand what is the most important thing to us?

 

  • Maximize the benefit of reading

Every time, after reading a book, I will write down the best part in the book. I just have to review these posts. Then, I can remember all the important information in the book.

 

  • Learn more from my life

We may have some new and incredible ideas sometimes, or learn something from some incidents in our life. If we just let them go without writing down, it would be a big wastage.

 

  • Reminder

I For example, I write down what my mother do to me. The first reason is to remind me that I am a lucky person. The second reason is that I hope every one treat their mother better. The third reason is to remind myself that I should treat her well and love her in my whole life no matter what happens.

 

  • Better command of English

I think it goes without saying right?

 

  • Better Brain

Professionals say that writing can enhance our thinking skills and memory.

 

  • New Friends

Blogging introduces me a lot of great friends around the world.

 

  • New Knowledge

I have the habits of reading other people’s (normal bloggers and real authors) posts after blogging. I really learn a lot from their posts.


Can you share with us what blogging give you and your expectation to blogging?

My expectation is to write better posts and make friends with some authors.

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I always feel that people can learn more things, if they tend to share with each others.

Based on these reasons, I interviewed three of the star bloggers here.

Unfortunately, I can only get Expector Smith and Dreamer Men replied me.

However, It is okay.

I hope every one of you can share your blogging experience and life experiences with us here as well.

 

Expector Smith:

Q:I think many people who read your post have the same feeling that this blogger English is great. Can you share with us how you learn English well? What are your secrets to keep yourselves motivated while learning English?

A:English is now a global language and you have reason to love it. I love English and have learned it for a very long time. The more you learn, the more you like it. I practise English every day. I've read a lot of grammar books. You bet it takes a lot of time and effort to get a good command of English.

 

Q:You have a lot of popular posts here in MyEC. What do you think the three most important things to attract readers are?

A:Pay attention to your blog's title, content and length. Try to make your writing as concise and grammatically correct as possible. Choose words carefully. Keep in mind no one really likes to read things too long or too complicated.

 

Q:It is very glad to hear that you are offered a 6- month observation. What do you are the most important things to realize the dreams of being offered an opportunity to study in western countries?

A:You set a reasonable goal and do your best to achieve it. 'Chances favor those who are prepared.

 

Q:I think it must be quite stressed to be a doctor. Can you share with us how you distress? What do you like to do in your space time?

A:Being a doctor doesn't necessarily mean you're suffering, even though this specialty can be so demanding and stressful. We are happy most of the time. In my spare time, I like to go online, especially to be here on MyEC. I used to play badminton.

 

Q:What are the most valuable experiences that blogging gives you? What do you learn the most from blogging?

A:I like to write and read blogs. I also enjoy reading and adding comments on them. By doing so, I've improved my writing and reading skills and made many friends who I cherish so much.

 

Dreamer Men:

 Q: We always have a lot of happy experiences while blogging in My EC. How about you? What are the most unforgettable experiences for you?

A: The most of happy experiance for me  is my first blog , I just creat blog " i am single and looking " so i find many many comment and all comment was so nice and funny too , I really enjoyed and made many friends through that blog i will never ever forget it :)

 

Q:The post, named 4 cats is really amazing. I can never forget it. You described the characteristics of the four types of occupations by creating a very interesting and creative story in the post.  How do you get inspired? How do you keep yourself so creative? I am sure every blogger of this club hope to know that.

A: i am not who made that  , I just wanted to share with you all , i am not so good on english so cant write something like that :)

 

Q:I am sure that every regular blogger of My EC knows that Dreamer Men’s blog posts are always very popular. There are always lots comments. Let me tell you a secret. I am actually one of your fans. What is the secret to keep your post popular? How to attract lots of comments?

A:lol do you think my blogs are popular?? that good news :), but nothing special i am simple guy and like to post something that people are interested and think about it and want know each one comment and opinion and sometimes i like funny blogs

 

Q:Now, we will go to the question that every one is interested in which are the methods of learning English. List out how you learn English.

A: well I use many methodes and i dont force my self i learn english with fun and motivation, i try to listen more , listen bbc news on radio , watching videos on youtube that you are interested in , making friends on EC and talk on skype conference with EC serious friends , and reading other blogs and try to discover new vocabulary and chat in EC too

 

 

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Target: Band 9# I will upload more and more methods on the internet.Do you have any suggestions?The Bold suggestions are from a prestigious English teacher in China, Li Yang. However, the may be some mistakes caused because of my poor translation.Listen, speak, read and write1. Live in English.2. Make good use of time fragment to practice English.3. Find a lot of friends to practice English with you.4. Make friends with native English speakers.Make good use of your subconscious power1. Imagine that your English is as good as native speaker before sleeping.2. Praise my memory, ability to imitate and talent every day.Listen1. Listen to English songs.2. Listen to BBC learning English programs every day.Speak1. Do not be afraid and voice my opinion in class. (Speak)2. Read my notes, record my voice, and listen to it regularly.(Speak)3. Translate what ever I see and hear into English. (Speak)4. Speak English loud when I wake up. (Speak)5. Collect and practice idioms. (Speak)6. Speak English loud for 10 minutes before sleeping. Let my right absorb it. (Speak)7. Collect good essay, read it again and again until I can blurt it out. (Speak)Read:1. Write down words that are hard to remember and paste it on wall.2. Speak English while I am walking.3. Put an English book in my living room, wash room and my kitchen.4. Browsing the websites with English.5. Memorize some lectures every day.6. Read some English books, instead of reading only Chinese books.7. Change my phone language into English.8. Bring along my vocabulary book (Phrases, old adages, good sentences, good essays and good words) all the times, and put it on bed.9. Read 5 minutes English before I eat.Write:1. Write a blog every day.2. Write e-mails, messages, notes and Facebook status in English.Two Aspects:1. Speak English with my friends. (Listen and Speak)2. Watch English movies and imitate the speakers. (Listen and Speak)3. Speak and read English with head high, chest out, abdominal in, and with power. (Speak and Read)4. Translate a short essay every day between English and my mother tongue. (Read and Write)Grammar:1. Do some grammar exercises and IELTS exercises.
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Read*100 14 March 2011

 

A book, named time investment, appeared in my most difficult moment. This book taught me more than time management. It revealed me the unique thoughts and life style of an extremely successful businesswoman in Japan. It helped me build up the habits of learning. The learning habits bring me a lot of dramatic changes in my life from then on.

I became a vivid learner from that time. I really feel the benefits of learning. Therefore, I really hope to share the benefits of learning with you, and encourage more people to be a vivid learner. However, learning is a very large topic and covers many things. In order to make things easy, today I will only talk about how reading helps me. Although learning is more than reading, reading actually plays a big role in learning.

 

(I am an enthusiastic reader. I need to read about 20 books every month. Here are some of the books I have with me now.)

 

1. Get close to successful people.

By reading, we can encounter a lot of successful people, who died already, or who we will never have a chance to talk to. If you study their thoughts and stories constantly, you will find that your thoughts, characteristics, styles, and life values will enhance as time goes on. Their experiences can also help us achieve excellence easier. Their stories can be best described as mental nutrition.

 

2. Give us guide and hope, when we are in the low of our life.

I would never forget this person, Kazuyo Katsuma, as her book gave me hope and guided me, while I was lost in my life. Last year, I really did not feel like continuing my studies, as my poor result in secondary school. I felt inferior because there were a lot of bad things happening on me and it seemed that I was not good at any aspects. Her book helped me started my learning journey. Every thing becomes better and better after building up the habit of constant learning.

 

3. Learn new skills earlier than the people around us.

We can actually learn a lot of new skills and techniques which are developed by more developed countries earlier than the people around us. For example, in my countries, mind-map, learning with the help of sub consciousness, and speed reading are not general. Only very few students learn them by reading. By reading a lot of related books and practicing diligently, I become better at all these aspects compared to those people around me. These skills have become my secret weapons to compete with others.

 

4. Reading is an eye opener.

Reading is also a good way to broaden our international perspectives. We can get the information about the economic situation, competition; the ways people think and behave and other things in more developed countries. For example, recently, a book, about Jewish learning styles makes me aware that there are people learning in a much more brilliant way than we are in the other side of the world. I should say it is very helpful in broadening my thoughts.

5. Writing skills.

I started my reading journey from last year and writing journey a few months ago. I can not say my writings are very nice, but I can say my writing does improve from time to time. I believe all these are related to reading, as reading can really enhance my thoughts and give me a lot of ideas.

 

6. Motivation.

If we read the stories of successful people constantly, their spirit will affect our mind unconsciously, keep us motivated all the time and make us think positively. We may feel frustrated when we face setbacks or obstacles, in the way to achieve our goals. The stories of people who have overcome those setbacks and obstacles, and have achieved their goals at the end can really motivate us.

 

7. Learn from authorities.

If we want to learn mind-map, we must learn from Tony Buzan. If we want to learn social skills, we must learn from Dale Cargenie. It is the same to other aspects, as we can get the most developed and creamy knowledge from them. Reading is the easiest way for us to learn their knowledge.

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I started to study English 30 minutes every night before sleeping, but I didn’t keep the habit for a long time, because I usually could not get my work done before 9PM, due to temporary laziness.
If I let it be, I will never master English. Then, my distance with my friends will get bigger.
No way! I definitely cannot let it be. I must motivate myself by competing with my friend and change my habits to ensure that I spend more time on learning English.
I need to create an English environment. I need to change Chinese in my every day life into English and create some good new habits.

English to Chinese
1. Set up two lists in my music player, one list is for English songs, the other is for songs in my mother tongue. Play the English songs list more that the other one. (Listen)
2. Watch more English movies, and less Chinese movies (Listen, Speak)
3. Speak English with my friends (Listen, Speak)
4. Change my phone language into English. (Read)
5. Browsing in English most of the time. (Read)
6. Read some English books, instead of reading only Chinese book (Read)
7. Write messages, notes, e-mails, blog posts and status in English. (write)

New Habits
1. Turn on BBC learning English programs, while I am doing things that do not require concentration. (Listen)
2. Attend more classes, so that I can learn more and practice my English as well. (Listen)
3. Read my notes in English, and record it. Then, Listen to it regularly. It is actually good way to memorize our lectures.(Listen, Speak)
4. Do not be afraid and voice my opinion in class more often. (Speak)
5. Memorize some lectures every day. (Read)

• I may not feel comfortable at first, but I believe I will get used to it soon.
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Inner beauty 8 March 2011

 

    I actually studied the concept of inner beauty at the age of 14 in my secondary school, but I did not actually understand what it was and how it worked.

    Today, something made me think of my idol. She is actually a successful woman who is about 40 years old. She has three kids, writes a lot of famous books, does a lot of business, and reads a lot of books. She even donates a lot of money.

    Suddenly, there was something crossing my mind at the moment. I suddenly understood what inner beauty was.

    My understanding to inner beauty now is actually quite abstract. I try to share it with you in words. I am looking forward to your opinion as well.

    If a person has inner beauty, he will make people feel that he looks better than how he originally looks like. Inner beauty can enhance by increasing our characteristics, knowledge, morality, movement, the ways we talk and so on.

    I think that is why I always think she is beautiful, although other people who do not know her think that she looks like an old housewife. This is because her characteristics, knowledge and others make me think that she is beautiful.

   After the happening of this event, it reminds me of one of my experiences in the past. I actually do not think Jay Chou is handsome when I saw him. (He is the most famous singer in Taiwan. So far as I know, he is the only person who does not know English but still can have movie in Hollywood.) However, when I saw his movie, Green Hornet, I suddenly feel that he looks handsome and charming.

   I think this is because his ability, movement, breakthrough, make him look better.

   In a nutshell, I think that in order to make us look better. We can actually do more than improving our look.

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28 Hours a day?-3 27/2/11

 

Have you applied the six tips, I introduced in my post, 28 Hours a day—1 and 2?

If you have I am sure that, you have already gained a lot of benefits from practicing them.

If not, please try to practise them right now.

Let me recap them again for you.

  1. Catch and kill all the thefts
  2. 10 minutes make your life different
  3. Sleep at workplaces and schools
  4. Charge your battery regularly
  5. If you cannot kill the thefts, you can try to make friends with them as well
  6. Manage our room and computer well.

 

Today, let me introduce you three more tips.

 

1. Control time spent on chatting.

One of my friends, he always wants to chat with me online for hours. Some of my friends in university, they like to invite me to have breakfast, lunch and dinner together. After eating, they normally can chat for approximately one hour.

 

Therefore, if I do not control chatting, it can eat into approximately 20 hours of my studying and private time a week.

 

To solve this problem, I can only have meals with my friends two times a week and stop chatting with the friend online.

 

Some of you may think that reducing time spent on chatting can decrease the level of happiness. In my opinion, I believe that only a suitable amount of chatting can enhance happiness. If we have less time to chat, we will treasure time spent chatting it more and enjoy chatting hours better. It is can be best described by using this example. If we eat abalone every meal, we will not feel happy by eating it, as it is already normal to us.

 

In the other hand, too much chatting can kill our time and end up with more rushing, less private and resting time, and less productivity. These can cause great stress.

 

Check right now! See if you spend too much time on chatting?

 

2. Employ some IT products, as your workers and secretary.

There are a lot of these types examples, I am going to show you two now. 

Instead of visiting book store every week, I would read some books online; it can cut down time and money spent on transports.

 

Voice recorder! It is very useful tool. I can record my lectures and tutorials and listen to them. While I am cleaning my rooms and doing something that does not require much concentration. With this recorder, I can make good use of every moment better.

 

I can ask my friends to record lectures, tutorials and meetings when I am absent as well.

 

How do you make good use of IT products? Do you have any ideas about making good use of IT products?

 

3. Create your perfect team and make good use of them.

I do not know how it works in a workplace, as I do not have much this type of experience in my workplaces.

 

In university, I like to study with my team from morning until night every Friday. In this discussion, I can solve my problems very quickly, and also check if I miss any important notes and info. I can also hear different types of understanding to the same topic.

 

This type of discussion can make me spent more time on my studying as well, as it is embarrassed to leave before the set time, just because I am lazy of studying.

 

This type of discussion also gives me a lot of meaningful ideas. Voice recorder is also one of the ideas I got in this discussion.

 

You can see my other posts right here.

http://lucusstyle.blogspot.com

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28 Hours a day? (2) 23 Feb 2011

Last week, I shared with you three tips to improve efficiency, in my post, 28 Hours a day?-(1).

Do you still remember the three tips?

It’s best if you still remember them.

However, it doesn’t matter, if you forgot them already, or you didn’t read the post.

Before we start, let me recap the three points here for you.

  1. Catch and kill all the thefts
  2. 10 minutes make your life different
  3. Sleep at workplaces and schools

Link: http://my.englishclub.com/profiles/blogs/28-hours-a-day

I am using them every day. They change my life. They are effective, so I really hope you can give them a try too.

Trust me you will feel the differences within one week.

Okay!

Now, let’s discuss three more tips to improve our efficiency.

1.Charge our battery regularly

It is easy to understand the fact that the more energetic our mind and body are, the more efficient we will be.

One way doing this is to create a list and record down whatever things that we enjoy doing. Those can relax ourselves or give us fun. I spend at least 30 minutes on them every day. On Saturday, I spend whole day on them as well.

It is useful. For example, I am stressed out recently, as I have too much to do, 5 examinations, many assignments, and a part-time job in these two weeks.

Therefore, today, while I went to return modem, I made good use of this opportunity to go to a very nice book shop and park.

After reading for one hour in book shop and sleep in the park for 30 minutes, my brain cells and other cells were rejuvenated. I feel very fresh, energetic again.

I like to relax myself, enjoy the melodious birds’ chirping sounds and followed by sleeping in a park. Really, it can be best described as a battery charging process.

This is my list.

  1. Lie down on the grass in a park, and feel the fresh air, bird chirping sounds, or visit tourist attractions.
  2. Eat in a good restaurant.
  3. Do some yoga.
  4. Read my favorite books.
  5. Listen to nice music or nice songs
  6. Watch my favorite actors’ movies.
  7. Write some light articles.
  8. Meditate.
  9. Walk relaxingly.
  10. 10. Cook.

 

2.If you cannot kill the thefts, you can try to make friends with them as well.

Try to find out all the thefts that steal your time and kill most of them. To those you can not kill, you can try to make friends with them. Let me give you an example. Today I needed to go a few places and spend at least 4 hours on waiting transports and on the transports. To deal with this problem, I read a book that I deliberately put in my bag in this morning while waiting. When I was on the transport, I tried to plan for this post, so that I could write it fast while I reached my house. You can also listen to English songs or English learn material on the transport too.

3.Manage our room and computer well.

Are your rooms in a mess? Do you need to spend a lot of time finding needed information or tools? Do your rooms make you feel uncomfortable?

 

If both of your answers are “no”, you do not have to continue reading.

If you are facing the problems above, please put every thing, included files in your computers in appropriate places all the times.

You also need to do a small cleaning every night and a big one every week.

 

By doing these, you can save time finding things, feel less stressed, and concentrate better.

 

 

At the end, I really hope you can try both the six tips I mentioned in these two posts.

A little action today can make your life different.

If you can improve your efficiency by 0.2 percent every day, you will have a brand new life after 100 days.

 

 

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28 Hours a Day?

Blog, Cook, Read hundreds of books a year, be a full time university student, Work, Study English, Memorize English Articles, Exercise, Rest in Saturday, sit for other certificate and many other things.

I Get involved in many things but still can maintain leading result in campus and lead free and relaxed life every day.

 

Therefore, there are quite a lot of people ask me how to manage my time.

 

Because of that, I decided to write a series of posts based on how I manage time.

Today, let’s talk about three important tips on time-management.

 

Catch and kill all the thefts

Arg! Lucus is so cruel? Do not get me wrong. The thefts here are actually theft of time

Spend a few minutes thinking if you have spent your times on things that cannot create any benefits or improve your well-being. I am sure there are. By killing those thefts, you can save at least two hours a day.

It may be hard to catch all those thefts at once, as some of them are good at hiding. Therefore, you have to be patient.

There are a lot of these types of examples. I will show you two of them.

I was used to having lunch and chatting with my friends after class to relax myself and collect important info. Usually this type of lunch can spend us more than one hour.

After a few months, I find that I can collect all the important info by just studying with them. Eating lunch with friends actually does not have good effect of entertainment. For then now, I seldom eat lunch with friends. This can save me up for at least 5 hours a week. Those five hours can be spent on more relaxing activities and more productive studying.

 

Here is the second example. I always bring along a laptop to school, so that I can get online materials, look up for dictionary efficiently and listen to classical music while studying. After a few weeks, I found that this can not really improve efficiency; instead it is a big theft of time, as if I have a laptop with me, I will watch Facebook and other websites again and again. This will eat into my studying hours.

 

10 Minutes make your life different

If there is not a time table in a secondary school, students learn what they want to learn. Teachers teach what they want to teach. At the end, will students be good at any particular aspects? I am sure they won’t.

Time table is important. You can make your life different by just spending 10 minutes planning your time every morning.

 

Sleep at workplaces or schools

Our attention is decreasing in the afternoon, because of using too much brain in the morning. Then, our efficiency will go down. To this I suggest finding a good and big sit and sleep on it for 30 minutes in the afternoon. This can help you focus better for the whole day.

 

At the end, I hope you can share how you spend your time wisely with us and leave a comment to tell me your opinion on this post. Your comments are appreciated.

Thank you so much

You can see my other posts here.

http://lucusstyle.blogspot.com

 

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Everyone is a CEO!!! 13/02/11

 

Every company needs an accountant to help them evaluate their asset from time to time, to understand its financial situation, potentials and capability, so that they can make accurate decision about their future investment, policies and trends.

 

In fact, besides company, we also need to do the same thing to ourselves.

 

Here are the reasons.

  1. We need to understand our strong points and weeks points, threats and opportunities, to maximize our development.
  2. We should know which part we should focus on to sharpen our strong points or improve our weak points.
  3. We can make accurate decision for our future investment and careers. For examples, if one has good skills, knowledge, experiences and social network, but does not have enough money, he can try to cooperate with someone who has money but does not have skills and so on when he want to set a business.
  4. Know if we are improving.

 

Then, how to evaluate our assets?

         According to one of the most famous writers in Japan, Kazuyo katsuma, our individual assets can be categorized into four types money for future investment, own experiences, skills to finish things subconsciously and social network related to individual assets.

In my opinion, I think we can only take her advice as a reference and evaluate our assets in a way that is suitable for our own situation.

 Here is how I categorize my assets.

  1. Certificate- To be a fresh man in the society, I need to show certificate to prove that I have a certain skill.
  2. Skills and knowledge- I do include some basic level skills, like basic writing skills and so on, as I am still too young to have many skills at proficiency level. I do categorize them into skills related to basic quality, like time management skills. And skill related to my occupations. I do also record the level of my skills when I assess my assets.
  3. Experiences- To broaden our experiences, we can try to change our daily tasks, and try more challenging tasks.
  4. Money- The investment here actually includes buying books.
  5. Social network – This is what I am focusing on now.

 

Do you like this post? Is it helpful? Is it boring? Please let me know.

 

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Dreams

Hold fast to dreams,

For if dreams die,

Life is a broken-winged bird,

That cannot fly.

 

Hold fast to dreams,

For if dreams go,

Life a barren field,

Frozen only with snow.

 

Poet: Langston Hughes

 

It is short and easy but meaningful.

It tells exactly how I feel.

 I think dreams are the drive of our life.

spiritual pillar of our life. 

the origins of happiness.

I love it.

Can you tell me your feeling to this poem?

 

 

 

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